161 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-29 and toms through bars 30-31, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 48-53 and 56-61, and 9 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 13, 22 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 45 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 13, 22 and 31 more.